SECOND SERVANT    Why, this it is to have a name in great men’s fellowship. I had as lief have a reed that will do me no service as a partisan I could not heave. FIRST SERVANT         To be called into a huge sphere and not to be seen to move in’t, are the holes where eyes should be […]

Music plays. Enter two or three Servants with a banquet FIRST SERVANT         Here they’ll be anon. Some o’ their plants are ill rooted already; the least wind i’th’ world will blow them down. SECOND SERVANT    Lepidus is high-coloured. FIRST SERVANT         They have made him drink alms-drink. SECOND SERVANT    As they pinch one another by the disposition, […]

ENOBARBUS  Octavia is of a holy, cold, and still conversation. MENAS           Who would not have his wife so? ENOBARBUS  Not he that himself is not so, which is Mark Antony. He will to his Egyptian dish again; then shall the sighs of Octavia blow the fire up in Caesar, and, as I said before, that which is […]

MENAS           We looked not for Mark Antony here. Pray you, is he married to Cleopatra? ENOBARBUS  Caesar’s sister is called Octavia. MENAS           True, sir. She was the wife of Caius Marcellus. ENOBARBUS  But she is now the wife of Marcus Antonius. MENAS           Pray ye, sir? ENOBARBUS  ’Tis true. MENAS           Then is Caesar and he for ever […]

ENOBARBUS  If our eyes had authority, here they might take two thieves kissing. MENAS           All men’s faces are true, whatsome’er their hands are. ENOBARBUS  But there is never a fair woman has a true face. MENAS           No slander; they steal hearts. ENOBARBUS  We came hither to fight with you. MENAS           For my part, I am […]

MENAS           [aside] Thy father, Pompey, would ne’re have made this treaty. [To Enobarbus] You and I have known, sir. ENOBARBUS  At sea, I think. MENAS           We have, sir. ENOBARBUS  You have done well by water. MENAS           And you by land. ENOBARBUS  I will praise any man that will praise me, though it cannot be denied what I […]

POMPEY         I know thee now. How far’st thou, soldier? ENOBARBUS                                                  Well, And well am like to do, for I perceive Four feasts are toward. POMPEY                                 Let me shake thy hand. I never hated thee. I have seen thee fight When I have envied thy behaviour. ENOBARBUS              Sir, I never loved you much, but I ha’ […]

POMPEY         We’ll feast each other ere we part, and let’s Draw lots who shall begin. ANTONY                                 That will I, Pompey. POMPEY         No, Antony, take the lot. But, first or last, your fine Egyptian cookery Shall have the fame. I have heard that Julius Caesar Grew fat with feasting there. ANTONY                                 You have heard much. POMPEY         […]

CAESAR                      [to Pompey] Since I saw you last There is a change upon you. POMPEY                     Well, I know not What counts harsh fortune casts upon my face, But in my bosom shall she never come To make my heart her vassal. LEPIDUS                     Well met here. POMPEY         I hope so, Lepidus. Thus we are agreed. I crave […]

POMPEY                     Know, then, I came before you here a man prepared To take this offer. But Mark Antony Put me to some impatience. Though I lose The praise of it by telling, you must know, When Caesar and your brother were at blows, Your mother came to Sicily, and did find Her welcome friendly. ANTONY                     […]